Arts Award
Arts Award
Arts Award is a national qualification which supports young people to develop as artists and arts leaders.
Arts Award helps young people develop their creativity and leadership skills, and explore the world of the arts. Young people work towards a Bronze, Silver or Gold Award - Levels 1, 2 and 3 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).
Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England.
Find out more at www.artsaward.org.uk
Any young person aged 11-25 can take part, through any arts or media activity, including production work like directing, performing, backstage and marketing.
Arts Award offers young people a framework which links their own creative work with their response to other people's artistic achievement and their research into the professional arts world. Their development is further stretched by sharing their skills with others and running their own projects.
Each young person decides their own starting point and agrees personal challenges with their Arts Award adviser. They create a portfolio of evidence in any media - written, video, audio or web-based. Arts Award assesses creative development rather than specific skill level in the chosen arts activity.
At The Garage, we incorporate Arts Award into our exciting programme and outreach activities for young people. If you are a young person interested in doing your Arts Award at The Garage, contact takepart@thegarage.org.uk
The Garage has been the East regional development agency for Arts Award since October 2005. This means we provide networking opportunities for advisers and young people undertaking the award, and act as an advocate for Arts Award throughout the East region. To see a complete list of east region Arts Award events, visit www.artsaward.org.uk/east
The Garage is also the Lead Arts Award Training Agency in the East and in this capacity we co-ordinate the Arts Award training across the region. The other Arts Award training agencies in the East region are: ADeC (Ely), Royal Opera House (Thurrock) and the UK Centre for Carnival Arts (Luton)
From April 2012 two brand new levels of Arts Award will be available; Arts Award Discover and Arts Award Explore. Through these new awards, anyone aged 7-25 can take part in Arts Award. Explore is accredited at Entry Level 3 while Discover is an introductory award. If you are interested in training to deliver the award, bookings are now open. Visit the Arts Award website for more www.artsaward.org.uk/7plus
More information about the Arts Award.
Contact the East Regional Agency.
Open College Network
The Garage is an Open College Network approved delivery centre which means that we can develop and deliver our own courses. One course that we deliver regularly is our own Technical Theatre and Production course, devised alongside professional theatre technicians and teachers. We are also able to deliver a range of other courses provided by the accreditation body at level 1 and 2.
"My teacher [at school] spoke about the Arts Award but I didn’t think we could do it with fun things like doing a show. I liked taking pictures of everything so we can call it evidence." Arts Award participant.
